I would listen to his records all the time and eventually, they started buying me my own at a pretty young age. Once I really started getting serious about guitar, I got deeper and deeper into how things sounded and how those things were achieved. Between my dad pointing things out to me and my guitar teachers really schooling me on production and tones, I really got deep into the audio world pretty early.
I would spend hours tweaking my amps and trying all kinds of different things. I would probably have been a much better guitar player if i hadn’t been so fascinated with audio! In reality, I always wanted to be a performer, but when people started noticing how seriously I took sounds, I sort of became the person they would go to about tones and recording advice.
I figured out I could actually make a living doing this instead of relying on 4 or 5 other crazy people to keep a band together. Is there a specific moment or project that helped push you on to the next level? There are tons of engineers and producers out there doing records with mid-sized bands, but only a handful of go-to, A-level guys producing the bulk of what’s topping the US modern metal scene. Well, I was lucky to start engineering under my super-talented best bud Jason Suecof, and from the moment I started at Audiohammer, we were working on some really cool stuff. I would say the records that really put us on the map as a team sonically was Bury Your Dead’s “Beauty and the Breakdown” as well as Black Dahlia Murder’s “Nocturnal. If you weren’t producing records, what would you do? Those were the early landmarks that sort of blazed my trail i suppose. I taught guitar before I did this, and i liked it. But I didn’t get the same satisfaction as i do from this. If I had to start over, I think maybe I would get into electronics of some sort.
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